The idea of a world that progresses, or evolves, in science has not always existed. In fact, the period of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century with scientists such as Isaac Newton the man who discovered gravity, Louis Pasteur the chemist who invented the vaccine to prevent rabies, Charles Darwin the father of evolution, Benjamin Franklin the first scientist to play with the dangers and possibilities of electricity, and many other wonderful scientists, it was the beginning of the "progress" that revolutionized our world. Among the scientists who have advanced our world, few have shaped modern biology as Charles Darwin did. Thomas Kuhn saw the progress made by people like Darwin not as a search for truth, but simply as another piece of the puzzle of science, challenging the very definition of a scientific revolution. After examining Kuhn's idea of science, Darwin seems to play a substantial role in the paradigm shift from the science of the past to the new one. Kuhn looked at Darwin and saw science evolving just as Darwin's organisms seemed to evolve. Many scientists seemed to play a small role in Kuhn's paradigm. Newton believed that science could answer questions accurately, if not “almost” truthfully. Newton still sought the truth, but he recognized that one scientist could not solve all the world's problems, and therefore he would solve what he could and leave the more difficult things to the people of the future. Newton also believed that scientists should focus on observable physical questions that could be answered, rather than philosophical ideas that could not be resolved. Newton provided Thomas Kuhn with an example of a paradigm shift. Before Newton, there was what was considered the new science, which had renounced the old belief system of Aristotle and the... middle of paper... in the idea that this paradigm would be the most widely believed paradigm of our time. If a brick wall were to be created in the paradigm, then the world of science would once again be in chaos until a brilliant new mind came up with a new workable idea, rather than an idea that simply builds on the old broken idea . Thomas Kuhn viewed his ideas about science as if science were Darwin's organism. The strongest and most suitable ideas were the ones that survived. In eras when young scientists, such as Einstein, Darwin, and Newton are open to new possibilities when old possibilities prove unsuccessful, changes occur in science, where only the strongest ideas survive. Darwin believed in the survival of the fittest, and Kuhn based his beliefs on the survival of the fittest idea for its time. Therefore, the entire composition of Thomas Kuhn's science was based on the ideologies of Charles Darwin.
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